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  • 168 Avani Mehta Sood

    168 Avani Mehta Sood
    Sep 22 2025
    Verdict Format on Trial. Avani Sood from NYU discusses the use of special verdicts in criminal cases, and why perhaps we should favor them instead of the traditional general verdict.
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  • 167 Jack Whiteley

    167 Jack Whiteley
    Sep 8 2025
    The Three-Verdict Problem. Jack Whiteley from the University of Minnesota discusses the Scottish tripartite system of jury verdicts, featuring verdicts of guilty, not guilty, and not proven.
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  • 166 Daniel Medwed

    166 Daniel Medwed
    Aug 25 2025
    Dan Medwed from Northeastern University discusses the past, present, and future of Chambers v. Mississippi and the right to present a defense.
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  • 165 Hayley Stillwell

    165 Hayley Stillwell
    Apr 7 2025
    Placebo Trials. Hayley Stillwell from the University of Oklahoma proposes the use of "placebo trials," test trials in which the alleged defendant is known to be innocent, to learn about jury dynamics and the empirical consequences of evidentiary rules.
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  • 164 Stephen Simon

    164 Stephen Simon
    Mar 24 2025
    Value Judgments and the Fact-Law Distinction. Stephen Simon from the University of Richmond offers a new perspective on the time-honored law-fact distinction.
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  • 163 Tomer Kenneth

    163 Tomer Kenneth
    Mar 10 2025
    In Defense of Factual Precedents. Tomer Kenneth from the University of Southern California discusses the evidentiary problem of general facts that are applicable across multiple cases, and whether there should be governed by doctrines akin to precedent.
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  • 162 Lisa Kern Griffin

    162 Lisa Kern Griffin
    Feb 24 2025
    The Limits and Costs of Cross-Examination. Lisa Kern Griffin from Duke University considers the costs of our excessive devotion to and dependence on cross-examination as our chief mechanism for ensuring accuracy in factfinding.
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  • 161 Ronald Allen

    161 Ronald Allen
    Feb 10 2025
    Minimal Rationality and the Law of Evidence. Ron Allen from Northwestern University argues that the goal of the law of evidence is to ensure minimal, not maximal, rationality in our adjudicative processes.
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